Tag: Windows Phone 8

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New Windows 8.1, Windows Azure and Visual Studio 2013 courses are now being offered on Microsoft Virtual Academy. For those who are not familiar with Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA), it offers online Microsoft training delivered by experts to help technologists continually learn, with hundreds of courses, in 11 different languages. It’s mission is to help developers, knowledgeable…

2 Platforms + 2 Stores + 2 Markets = 1 Developer account Exciting news today regarding your Windows and Windows Phone developer account benefits. As announced on the official Windows Blog, starting today, developers (and basically anyone interested) will be able to register (and renew) their account in a single place, with a single registration, and will have…

I was asked by a lot of developers to compile a learning roadmap regarding Windows Phone 8 Development. I compiled lots of Windows Phone 8 Developer resources in 1 Slide that should help you get started with the platform (Learning, Porting, Designing, Building, Testing, Publishing, and Monetizing your app) So the Developer Roadmap is simply…

Windows Phone and non windows phone developers brace yourselves for a series of 10 weekly online sessions throughout the upcoming 2 months, the sessions cover Windows Phone 8 Development from a general introduction and overview of the Windows Phone 8 differentiated features across building and designing to differentiating your Windows Phone app and making money out…

Summer is going to be a very busy month for developers and IT Pros that want to practice with the new tools and technologies that Microsoft is releasing, so don’t miss any of the events that are happening. After the huge success of TechEd North America 2013 some weeks ago now TechEd comes…

At the end of my previous blog post, we have successfully implemented an alphabetically arranged JumpList. In this post, we will see how to customize the JumpList to any other category you would like to use. To do this, we will use a new solution, where we will sort Famous Movie Characters based on their…

The LongListSelector control in Windows Phone 8 is highly versatile. I decided to delve into the various ways we can use the LongListSelector as a JumpList. After a lot of searching on MSDN and a little bit of dabbling on my own part, I preparing a short tutorial in 2 parts: Part 1: To help…

Windows Phone Toolkit: Context Menu getting selected item within a long list selector Now you can add touch-sensitive menus to your Windows Phone 8 apps by using Context menus. One of the new components in the Windows Phone Toolkit is Context Menu. Basically when the user taps and holds on any item the context menu…